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Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Server 2010)

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Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010

This article lists the minimum hardware and software requirements to install and run Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Important

If you contact Microsoft technical support about a production system that does not meet the minimum hardware specifications described in this document, support will be limited until the system is upgraded to the minimum requirements.

Overview

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides for a number of installation scenarios. Currently, these installations include single server with built-in database installations and single-server or multiple-server farm installations.

The requirements in the following table apply both to installations on a single server with a built-in database and to servers running SharePoint Server 2010 in a multiple server farm installation.

Component

Minimum requirement

Processor

64-bit, four cores

RAM

4 GB for developer or evaluation use

8 GB for production use in a single server or multiple server farm

Hard disk

80 GB for system drive

You must have sufficient space for the base installation and sufficient space for diagnostics such as logging, debugging, creating memory dumps, and so on. For production use, you also need additional free disk space for day-to-day operations. Maintain twice as much free space as you have RAM for production environments. For more information, see Capacity management and sizing for SharePoint Server 2010.

Hardware requirements—Database servers

The requirements in the following table apply to database servers in production environments with multiple servers in the farm.

SharePoint Server 2010 is not supported on Microsoft SQL Server 2014. Version support is determined by the equation in the following Note:

Note

In order to maintain SharePoint and SQL Server compatibility we use the “SharePoint N-1 on SQL Server N+1” equation to determine version support. Using SharePoint Server 2010 as an example, the N release of SQL Server is 2008/2008 R2 and N+1 is SQL Server 2012. For Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 the N release of SQL Server is 2012 and the N+1 is SQL Server 2014.

You must download an update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 before you run Setup. The update is a hotfix for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that is installed by the Preparation tool. It provides a method to support token authentication without transport security or message encryption in WCF. For more information and links, see the "Access to Applicable Software" section later in this article.

You must download an update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 before you run Setup. The update is a hotfix for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that is installed by the Preparation tool. It provides a method to support token authentication without transport security or message encryption in WCF. For more information and links, see the "Access to Applicable Software" section.

Microsoft Server Speech Platform to make phonetic name matching work correctly for SharePoint Search 2010.

Client computer

Microsoft Silverlight 3.

Access to applicable software

To install Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, or SharePoint Server, you can go to the Web sites listed in this section. You can install most software prerequisites through the SharePoint Server Start page. The software prerequisites are also available from Web sites listed in this section. The Web Server (IIS) role and the Application Server role can be enabled manually in Server Manager.